Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing experts to recommend frontier AI safety measures, including audited kill switches and loss-of-control incident reporting.
Governor Gavin Newsom's Friday executive order convenes an expert group that must deliver AI safety recommendations within two months. Measures under consideration include onsite independent verification groups, independently audited transparency reports, a routinely verified 'kill switch' for frontier models, and mandatory reporting of loss-of-control incidents such as the OpenAI attack on Hugging Face. The order also accelerates two recently signed laws creating an independent AI verifier framework and a state registry of AI auditors. Newsom is positioning California's framework as a model for federal action amid congressional inaction.
- Executive order convenes experts to deliver AI safety recommendations within two months.
- Proposed measures include onsite independent verifiers, audited transparency reports, and verified kill switches.
- Companies would report loss-of-control incidents like the OpenAI attack on Hugging Face.
- Newsom urges Congress and Trump to adopt California's framework as a regulatory floor.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to strengthen AI safety measures in state law.
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